Arrogance yields nothing but strife. Wisdom belongs to those who take advice.
Numbers 16:10 - Tree of Life Version So He brought you close, along with all your fellow sons of Levi. But you are seeking the priesthood, too! Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And he hath brought thee near to him, and all thy brethren the sons of Levi with thee: and seek ye the priesthood also? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And that He has brought you near to Him, and all your brethren the sons of Levi with you? Would you seek the priesthood also? American Standard Version (1901) and that he hath brought thee near, and all thy brethren the sons of Levi with thee? and seek ye the priesthood also? Common English Bible He has allowed you and all your fellow Levites with you to approach him. Yet you also seek the priesthood? Catholic Public Domain Version Was the reason that he caused you and all your brothers, the sons of Levi, to approach him, so that you would even claim for yourselves the priesthood too, Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Did he therefore make thee and all thy brethren, the sons of Levi, to approach unto him, that you should challenge to yourselves the priesthood also, |
Arrogance yields nothing but strife. Wisdom belongs to those who take advice.
Adonai said to Aaron, “You, your sons, and the house of your father with you will bear the guilt for the Sanctuary, and you and your sons will bear the guilt for your priesthood.
But you and your sons with you are to maintain your priesthood for everything pertaining to the altar and inside the parokhet . I am giving you the ministry of the priesthood as a gift. Anyone unauthorized who approaches will die.”
You are to appoint Aaron and his sons to maintain the priesthood; any commoner who approaches must be executed.”
“Gather the tribe of Levi near, and appoint them to attend to Aaron the kohen.
But there was also a quarrel among them about which of them is considered the greatest.
Be tenderly devoted to one another in brotherly love; outdo one another in giving honor.
Do nothing out of selfishness or conceit, but with humility consider others as more important than yourselves,
I wrote something to Messiah’s community, but Diotrephes, who loves to be first among them, doesn’t welcome us.
So Micah consecrated the Levite, and the young man became his priest and lived in the house of Micah.